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New Prévost secondary school
By : PRISME architecture, Leclerc architectes et DKA
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 17th edition
Discipline : Architecture
Categories : Other categories in architecture / Concept & Unbuilt : Silver Certification
As part of the new generation of Quebec high schools project carried out for the Société Québécoise des Infrastructures, PRISME architecture and Leclerc Architectes acted as co-directors of the master team. The first part of this gigantic, more theoretical project consisted in drafting functional, conceptual and technical requirements applicable to all school projects, with the aim of rethinking the province’s future schools. This was the context for the construction of the project carried out in consortium with PRISME architecture, Leclerc Architectes and DKA.
To cope with increasing demographics, a lack of places for students and the growth of real estate developments throughout the territory, the Centre de Service Scolaire de la Rivière-du-Nord opted to build a new high school in the town of Prévost to provide its students with an adequate and compliant learning environment.
In the midst of a major project phase, the Centre de Service Scolaire de la Rivière-du-Nord decided to build a new high school in the town of Prévost to provide its students with an adequate and compliant learning environment.
Currently in the execution phase, the new school, which will open its doors in the recent school year 2027, will aim to be flexible, adaptive, biophilic and in response to the needs of its users.
A school rooted in its environment
Caring about the environment that will surround the future high school, the architectural firms studied the location to make the school sensitive to its host city. Located in a wooded area bordering residential dwellings, the architects had to respect the tranquility of the homes while including an architectural signature that wouldn’t stand out from its surroundings. With this in mind, the building will be designed to blend into the natural environment, with large openings to the exterior, and will reinforce the commercial and service function of Route 117. This project will integrate the natural features of the site and adapt to its topography.
Finally, the school will be seen as the motor of its neighborhood and community by offering a teaching, sporting and collaborative space by sporting landscaped outdoor spaces concerned with the landscape and the well-being of citizens. This is how the school will become the hub of student life in this ever-growing city.
A school for educational success – Architectural concept
The real estate planning guide for new high schools specifies that new schools will need to be designed with educational success in mind. It’s important to always ask the question: why? why build this new school? The answer: to offer students a place conducive to evolution, understanding, openness and listening to others focused on sharingand collaboration. That’s why this 4-storey project will incorporate collaborative rooms as well as an atrium that will be the heart of the school, providing everyone with gathering places where exchange is the watchword. The layout and the integrated furniture have been designed to be flexible and scalable for all types of learning.
The Prévost high school will be collaborative. It will become a complete pedagogical tool featuring layouts that encourage the learning of healthy lifestyle habits in a design that promotes an active and dynamic life.
At the time of its arrival, Prévost high school will be collaborative.
From the moment you enter the site, the pedestrian experience will be enlivened by ground features that recall the fluid, natural character of the former golf course. The embedding of the building by the levees will anchor the building at the center of its site. The heart of the school will be inserted into the interstice that unites 2 volumes: educational and sports. The communal spaces pass from the exterior to the interior via a pathway that presents views over the landscape. This core is modulated to create a welcoming forecourt by opening up the communal volume.
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Through thepercées of the communal spaces, the landscape is set the stage and enlivens the facades by energizing the openings to reinterpret the architectural concept. The firms assume the monolithic treatment of its envelope. The masonry details of the envelope exalt the play of light that helps to feed the mineral character.
An inclusive living environment
The building’s design is intended to be, and must be, designed for everyone, offering a safeplace to live where academic success resonates in the hallways. The integration of digital technologies has also been planned offering students dynamic, fun and captivating courses.
Academic success requires a school that understands its students and offers them a place conducive to exchange and learning in an open, relaxing yet stimulating atmosphere. Because every individual is different, it was essential to provide a concept that rallies everyone through meticulously studied architecture proposing a heart (the atrium) around which all activities gravitate. The circulation is designed to be fluid and simplified.
A healthy, eco-responsible school
It’s important to make our schools examples of sustainable development and resilient architecture. The future of our children also depends on the quality of the buildings we build.
Implementation and orientation to optimize natural light intake and energy performance will be thought out and installed, contributing to occupant comfort and sustainable development.
But also spaces will be designed to perform acoustically to encourage concentration and learning.
The result is a high school that looks to the future, to sustainability, to functionality, but above all to the well-being of its users.
Collaboration
Architect : PRISME architecture
Architect : Leclerc architectes
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